When your hospital treatment is finished, the best place for you to recover is at home. This is known as the home first approach.
The home first approach helps you to maintain your independence as much as possible as you recover from illness or injury at home, after a hospital stay.
Home first also means that ongoing care assessments happen at home, because this is the best place to understand your longer term care and support needs.
“Home” could be in a care home, your own home or that of a friend or family member.